Several firefighting units have been dispatched to the factory in the Bayezid Textile area
The elephant came down from the hills of the Indian state of Meghalaya and entered the locality in Sadhuparha through Someshwari river on Thursday morning, Durgapur Police Station OC Rezaul Karim said.
The elephant attacked the house of one Hari Dey around 5am, injuring his wife Geeta Rani Dey.
She was admitted to the Durapur Upazila health complex and later shifted to the Mymensingh Medical College and Hospital after her condition worsened.
Then locals chased the elephant and it entered a paddy field.